What a brutal winter this has turned out to be. It’s not that we got creamed with huge snow storms, although we have certainly had a lot of it. And it’s not that we’ve been in a permanent deep freeze, although we’ve certainly not seen many breaks in the fairly frigid temperatures.
It’s that the snow keeps coming … this is March, when Ottawa looks forward to April showers. We are used to the snow rapidly disappearing and by mid-March we usually are smelling the spring smells of wet gravel, before the trucks roll by to clean it all up for the summer.
But not this year … it is almost 3 weeks in on the 19th and we just got another blanket of snow to add to the snow we’ve been getting constantly for weeks. Sheesh …
Remember that a few weeks ago we got hit hard and all the buses got stuck (a very amusing evening for those of us not dependent upon this mode of transportation) …
Panasonic GX1 & Sigma 19mm 1600iso f/2.8 1/20
Panasonic GX1 & Sigma 19mm 1600iso f/2.8 1/40
Then late last week we got hit again …
Fuji F800EXR 100iso f/3.5 1/850
Fuji f800exr 100iso f/5.2 1/600
fuji f800exr 100iso f/5.2 1/320
fuji f800exr 100iso f/5.3 1/140
And last night we got pounded one more time …
Panasonic GX1 & X VARIO PZ 14-42 160iso f/8 1/200
panasonic gx1 & X vario pz 14-42 160iso f/8 1/250
panasonic gx1 & samyang 7.5 160iso f/5.6 1/400
panasonic gx1 & samyang 7.5 160iso f/5.6 1/250
panasonic gx1 & samyang 7.5 160iso f/5.6 1/320
And so it goes … I sure hope we see the ground again one day soon …
